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According to Yomiuri Shimbun, a team of researchers will be trying to recreate the mammoths, which went extinct 10,000 years ago, from tissue samples taken from a mammoth carcass from the permafrost in Siberia. They’ll take nucleii from mammoth cells, implant them in an elephant’s egg cells (from which the elephant nucleii have been removed), stick the result in an elephant’s womb, and presto: Wooly Mammoth! Or so they hope.

They hope to be able to examine a successful clone to try and determine why the species went extinct, so there IS a scientific reason for doing this. But if one day your car gets crushed by a roaming mammoth and you find huge piles of mammoth poop on your lawn, don’t say you weren’t warned.

LMAO! Thanks Chester & Loaf Loaf for defending me (^_^) I guess some people just don’t get humor! The really great part about Mike’s comment is he referred to the wiki page…hahaha…and everyone knows Wikipedia info is ALWAYS correct, ALWAYS, for everything! <- FYI: that was sarcasm (~_^)

I agree with Chester…Mike looks like the idiot! I thought Tiffany’s comment was funny!
Moving on….I don’t really see the point in doing this, do we really need woolly mammoths, the poachers will go nuts over the ivory and they’ll become extinct again!!

I guess jokes and sarcasm don’t get through to idiots like you….I believe she was poking fun at this article…hence her first sentence – “in it for the Ivory”….get a clue and stop being such a comment Nazi man!!!

They are just in it for the Ivory! I kid…or do I? If this actually works I think it would be at the very least a great achievement but like you said do we really need mammoths in this day and age, or is this like a gateway experiment, next it’ll be dinosaurs….oh wait they are already doing that http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/27557/scientists-clone-dinosaur/
Did these people not see Jurassic Park (LOL)